CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES § 206–§ 207 [ARTICLE VII]

the Constitution. In Bond v. Floyd, 385 U.S. 116 (1966), the Supreme Court held that the exclusion by a State legislature of a member-elect of that body was unconstitutional, where the legislature had asserted the power to judge the sincerity with which the Member-elect could take the oath to support the Constitution of the United States. In the 97th Congress, the House declared vacant a seat where the Member-elect was unable to take the oath because of illness, where the medical prognosis showed no likelihood of improvement to permit the Member-elect to take the oath or assume the duties of a Representative (H. Res. 80, Feb. 24, 1981, pp. 2916–18). Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States: McCulloch v. Mary- land, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316 (1819); Ex parte Garland, § 206. Decisions of the Court. 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 333 (1867); Davis v. Beason, 133 U.S. 333 (1890); Mormon Church v. United States, 136 U.S. 1 (1890).

ARTICLE VII. The Ratification of the Conventions of nine § 207. Ratification of States, shall be sufficient for the the Constitution. Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. DONE in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thou- sand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth IN WITNESS whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names, Go WASHINGTON—Presidt. and Deputy from Virginia.

[Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.]

New Hampshire.

JOHN LANGDON,NICHOLAS GILMAN.

Massachusetts.

NATHANIEL GORHAM,RUFUS KING.

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Connecticut.

WM. SAML. JOHNSON,ROGER SHERMAN.

New York.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

New Jersey.

WIL: LIVINGSTON,WM. PATERSON, DAVID BREARLEY,JONA: DAYTON.

Pennsylvania.

B FRANKLIN,THOMAS MIFFLIN, ROBT. MORRIS,GEO. CLYMER, THOS. FITZSIMONS,JARED INGERSOLL, JAMES WILSON,GOUV MORRIS.

Delaware.

GEO. READ,GUNNING BEDFORD JUN, JOHN DICKINSON,RICHARD BASSETT. JACO BROOM,

Maryland.

JAMES MCHENRY,DAN OF ST THOS. JENIFER. DANl CARROLL,

Virginia.

JOHN BLAIR,JAMES MADISON Jr.

North Carolina.

WM. BLOUNT,RICH’D. DOBBS SPAIGHT. HU WILLIAMSON,

South Carolina.

J. RUTLEDGE,CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY, CHARLES PINCKNEY,PIERCE BUTLER.

Georgia.

WILLIAM FEW,ABR BALDWIN. Attest: WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary.

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